Crimping device for starched laundried goods.



PATENTED OCT. 16, 1906.

APPLIQATION FILED JUNE 29, 1904.

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I JOHN WHITNEY ORMSBY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

CRIMPING DEVICE FOR .STARCHED LAUNDRIED GOODS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1906.

Application filed June 29, 1904:. Serial No. 214.594.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I,J0HN WHITNEY ORMSBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Crimping Devices for Starched Laundered Goods, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for crimping the buttonholes and eyelets of cuffs, collars, and similar articles.

It is a well-known fact that when cuffs, collars, and other similar articles have been properly starched and ironed the eyelets or buttonholes of the same are often so stiff and rigid that it is with great difliculty that the buttons or studs with which they are connected together are inserted, owing to which fact the buttons or studs are frequently broken when inserting them.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and efiicient device by which the fabric around the eyelet or buttonhole may be crimped and the starch removed, whereby the same is made soft and flexible and whereby the button or stud may be easily and quickly inserted and the danger of breaking the same is avoided.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the preferred form of crimping device as shown in the act of crimping the margin of a buttonhole of a cuff. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the device shown in Fig. 1 with the cuff removed. Fig. 3 is a detail showing the corrugated face of one of the crimping-plates shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 represents a plan view, and Fig. 5 represents a side view, of a modified form of my crimping instrument provided with means for spreading the buttonhole after it has been crimped. Fig. 6 represents a modified form of crimping-plate shown in Figs. 4 and 5, having circular corrugations and a blade for spreading the buttonhole. Fig. 7 represents a crimping-plate shown in Figs. 4 and 5, which is opposed to that shown in Fig. 6, provided with a recess for the reception of the blade shown in Fig. 6.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout the several views.

My crimping device comprises, among other things, the opposing jaws A A, the opcrating-handles B B, which handles are pivotally connected together by the rivet C, corrugated crimping-plates D and D, and handle-actuating spring E.

It will be understood that the corrugations upon one of the crimping-plates is inversely arranged to the corrugations upon the opposing crimping-plate, whereby the projections of the corrugations upon one crimping-plate register with and conform to the depressions of the corrugations in the opposite crimpingplate. The peculiar form of the corrugations of the opposing crimping-plates is not material, provided they intermesh with each other so as to crimp the article and remove the starch around the bottonhole.

While the crimping-plates may, if desired, be formed integrally with the jaws A, they are preferably formed of separate pieces and secured to the jaws by rivets or screws F. G represents the cuff which is being operated upon by the crimping device. After the margin of the buttonhole has been crimped and starch sufliciently removed or crushed the buttonhole will be further spread by inserting therein the spreading-blade H, which is connected with one of the jaws A of the instrument. To provide for simultaneously spreading the buttonhole or eyelet as the same is being crimped, I preferably provide one of the plates D with a projecting blade I and the opposing crimping-plate with a recess J, registering with and adapted to receive said blade I as the crimping-plates are brought together upon the respective sides of the cuff or collar. Thus it is obvious that by the device shown in Fig. 4 the projection I will penetrate and separate the sides of the buttonhole or eyelet, while the crimpingplates D and D serve to simultaneously crimp the margin of the buttonhole and render the same soft and flexible preparatory to inserting a stud or button.

The handle-actuating spring E is secured in place between the respective handles B B by the retaining -rivet C. Said spring is formed by a resilient wire, the center of which is coiled one or more times around the rivet C, while its diverging ends bear against the opposing sides of the handles and serve to throw them apart when released from the grasp of the operator, and thus facilitates the use of the instrument.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The device herein described for simultaneously crimping and spreading the but- IIO tonholes or eyelets of starched goods consisting in the combination of a pair of crossed handles and crimping-jaws, a rivet pivotally connecting said handles together, a convex projection afiixed to the face of one of said crimping-jaws, the face of the opposing jaw being provided with a recess for the reception of said convex projection, substantially as set forth.

2. In a crimping device for starched goods, the combination with a pair of pivotally-cone nected handles and jaws, of a pair of conversely-corrugated crimping plates, one of said plates being provided with a transverselyarranged blade projecting from its corrugated surface while the opposite plate is provided with a recess for the reception of said blade, substantially as set forth. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. I

JOHN WHITNEY ORMSBY. Witnesses:

JAS. B. ERwIN, N. Z. TANGHERI 

